J-PAL Donation for Heleen and Francesco's Wedding

On the occasion of our wedding, we are fundraising for J-PAL, where our close friend Anna Schrimpf works (alongside Nobel prize winners Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee!) J-PAL is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anna will be at the wedding and is happy to answer any questions you might have there, or you can reach her in advance on +33-766-883-904 or [email redacted]

To ensure optimum tax treatment for the charity, all donations to this page will go to our bank account. We will match 50% of donations, and then forward the total on to the charity, who will claim gift aid. In this way, the charity will receive £1.9 for each £1 that you give!

Anchored by a network of more than 150 affiliated professors at universities around the world, J-PAL draws on results from randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty. J-PAL builds partnerships with governments, NGOs, donors, and others to share this knowledge, scale up effective programs, and advance evidence-informed decision-making.

J-PAL was launched at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003 and has regional centers in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

RESEARCH

J-PAL believes investing in rigorous research is essential to finding solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. Working with implementing partners, J-PAL’s affiliated professors conduct randomized impact evaluations to test and improve the effectiveness of social programs. J-PAL affiliates have conducted more than 900 randomized evaluations across a diverse range of topics, from clean water to microfinance to crime prevention.

POLICY

J-PAL translates research into action, promoting a culture of evidence-informed policymaking around the world. Their policy analysis and outreach helps governments, NGOs, donors, and the private sector apply evidence from randomized evaluations to their work, and contributes to public discourse around some of the most pressing questions in social policy and international development.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

With a focus on learning and innovation, J-PAL works to build the capacity of researchers who produce evidence, policymakers and donors who use it, and advocates of evidence-informed policy. We create university-level open online courses and deliver in-person training programs around the world that help people become better producers and users of scientific evidence.